I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.